1 CORINTHIANS 9:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.”
If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. — Others (alloi apostoloi) exercise the right; Paul and Barnabas do not (ouk echrēsametha tē exousia). The phrase 'put up with' (stegō) conveys enduring hardship without complaint. The motivation is crucial: lest they hinder (mē egkopēn... tō euaggeliō) the gospel. Paul's refusal of support is strategic—to remove objections to the gospel's credibility.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 9:12
“If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more?” See also again another argument, and this too from examples though not of the same kind. For it is not Peter whom he mentions here nor the Apostles, but certain other spurious ones, with whom he afterwards enters into combat, and concerning whom he says, 2 Corinthians 11:20 “If a man devour you, if he take you captive, if he exalt himself, if he smite you on the face,” and already he is sounding the prelude to…
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